Japan

An award-winning translation of the classic novella about the Japanese ghetto.

A revealing look at rural lives and lifestyles that have all but disappeared today.

Joiner's second novel set in the fabled Kanazawa area is an intimate yet understated look at an American who seeks recovery after his marriage to a Japanese woman has failed.

An American girl of Japanese ancestry is exiled in her own country after Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.

A documentary manga biography of the influential artist and the birth and evolution of manga and anime in Japan.

A group of people walk across, around, and all over Tokyo. They talk, talk, talk.

Finally back in print, an intimate guide to Japanese woodworking tools.

The first English translation of the groundbreaking 1931 graphic novel!

An exploration of the roots of beauty in Japanese aesthetics.

The hottest directors, their coolest films . . . A complete guide to today's Japanese movie renaissance.

The Silver Spoon is a sharp detailing of life at the end of the Meiji period (1912) through the eyes of a boy as he grows into adolescence.

60 years of observation: an American journalist’s memoir about Tokyo’s modern urban transformation, its criminal underworld and, oh yes, baseball.

The best of an extraordinary expatriate writer.

Two women. Two cultures. One music.

The complete version of the travel writing classic with photography by Yoichi Midorikawa.

In its day the most popular book on the culture and history of then-mysterious Japan.

Introducing Hiromi Ito, an award-winning Japanese author who has been compared to Haruki Murakami and Yoko Tawada.

The ultimate guidebook to walking the streets of Tokyo that Japan lovers and the curious have been waiting for.

The author of Wabi Sabi explores the intersection of beauty and design at an extraordinary flower shop in Vienna.

Discover the beauty of haiku in this poetic memoir of life abroad.

Marc Peter Keane describes the history, design, and aesthetics of tea gardens, from T'ang China to the present day...

The true story of how one Japanese village suffered and survived the mercury poisoning of its waters.

An erudite voyage through the details and customs of Japanese life.

A contemporary Japanese crime thriller unravels an intricate web of deception and greed, inspired by recent land-fraud scandals.